Thank Goodness It's Friday!!! This is how I started off my weekend last Friday night... Gonna do something similar tonight.

This chicken was injected with a 50/50 mixture of Dale's Seasoning and Apple Cider Vinegar. I used some Charles Vergo's Rendezvous Rub on the outside, and smoke roasted it on my green ceramic smoker with some Applewood. Cooked it raised direct at around 375 deg f and spritz it with Apple Cider Vinegar every so often.

It was very, very good...will definitely be using this simple injection for future cooks.

One may cancel out the other also unless the brine and injection was similar, chicken is rapidly becoming my meat of choice when I fire up the smoker. Maybe Saturday, it look like a storm coming today.

Dales has only been on the shelf for a couple of years here as well, my brother turned me on to it when he was doing some steaks a few years ago, I liked it but that's about all I can remember. He did say never put it on a hamburger and let it sit or it'll eat the burger

SC, Justin Timberlake must have left that there. (BL platinum commercial for those of you who are confused)

The Dales and the vinegar seemed to mix well together. I did swirl it around though in case it separated. I like using the Reduced Sodium Dales. You can find it on the ketchup/condiment isle. It's a liquid that resembles Worcestershire sauce. Good on a lot of stuff, especially burgers.

I've never injected a bird before is it better then a brine, looks good.

Thx, Old Smoker! I guess I'd have to say that a brine makes it more juicy, but the injection makes it more flavorful. If you did them both, I bet it would be awesome!

Very nice bird, Dyal!

Brines vs. injections are a bit confusing, though. From what I've read, brines are usually salt and water, often with added seasonings, and you usually soak the meat in it. Injections are often salt and water and added seasonings as well, but they sometimes contain melted butter or oil or something like that and they are injected right into the meat. From what I've read, injections are also a bit more concentrated.

So is an injection basically a more-enhanced or concentrated version of a brine? I haven't done many birds like that because I think I bought a cheap injector because it broke after a few uses.

Unlike propane, you'll never wake up scorched and naked in another county because you mishandled a bag of briquettes.